When time is short, as it usually is, I’d rather be playing and teaching music than writing about it online. This must be why my music website is chronically out-dated and a bit of a mess. In recent news I have been doing a lot of piano teaching. See my website Mt. Airy Piano Lessons. […]

My travels have ended. I am back in Philadelphia. In August of 2014 my wife and new-born son settled into a new house in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. Since then I have been busy with writing and performing scores for Not So Silent Cinema, playing piano in various projects around town, and teaching. […]

I, Brendan Cooney, have moved to New York. I have two questions: 1. What are all of these people doing here? 2. Where can I pee? I’m looking forward to hearing and playing lots of good music here in ‘the city’. Looking ahead I will be touring PA and the South in September with the […]

My piece for cello ensemble “Should I Open the Box Or Should I Not Open the Box?” received several performances this summer. It was written for my good friend and colleague Lisa Liske-Doorandish to use with her students. It was then picked up by the Tennessee Cello Workshop in the spring. In July it received […]

When time is short, as it usually is, I’d rather be playing and teaching music than writing about it online. This must be why my music website is chronically out-dated and a bit of a mess. In recent news I have been doing a lot of piano teaching. See my website Mt. Airy Piano Lessons. […]

My travels have ended. I am back in Philadelphia. In August of 2014 my wife and new-born son settled into a new house in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. Since then I have been busy with writing and performing scores for Not So Silent Cinema, playing piano in various projects around town, and teaching. […]

I, Brendan Cooney, have moved to New York. I have two questions: 1. What are all of these people doing here? 2. Where can I pee? I’m looking forward to hearing and playing lots of good music here in ‘the city’. Looking ahead I will be touring PA and the South in September with the […]

My piece for cello ensemble “Should I Open the Box Or Should I Not Open the Box?” received several performances this summer. It was written for my good friend and colleague Lisa Liske-Doorandish to use with her students. It was then picked up by the Tennessee Cello Workshop in the spring. In July it received […]

In a couple weeks I will be a resident of New York City. It’s been a busy year in Boston… too busy to keep my site updated. Here’s the year in review: In the Fall of 2012 I began a monthly silent-film series at the Armory in Sommerville MA. I composed a full-length score each […]

It’s been just over a year since I moved to this fair city of Boston. It’s hard to believe so much has happened in just one year. Here is a quick update on some of those projects. I put a lot of time into my project Not-So-Silent-Cinema this year, my project of writing and performing […]

I’m excited about the next Not-So-Silent-Cinema project: three new scores I’ve composed for three classic Buster Keaton shorts. March 30, 2012 Arts at the Armory 8pm 191 Highland Ave, Somerville MA $11 on facebook With Kyle Tuttle on banjo Andy Bergman on clarinet and myself Brendan Cooney on piano The trailer with some of my […]

The Nosferatu2011 tour was a big success. We had huge crowds, had a blast, and played some great/spooky music. Here is some footage from our show at the Armory in Sommervile MA where we played to 150+ people. My Silent Filmscore Project has a new web-site: No-So-Silent-Cinema

Swarm Vs. Herd is a piece for Wind Ensemble that I composed for a student/faculty ensemble at Friends Music Camp, where I teach every summer. The piece is a wild battle in 7/8 between the woodwinds (swarm) and brass (herd). It was a lot of fun to work with and write for such great players, […]